I have window server 2008 as the Operating system on my Dell Latitude E6420 XFR , its the Early 2011 model and the Service Tag is 9V227W1.
The issue i'm encountering is that I connect the laptop to ...

So I have an UART to USB chip that I use to interface Arduino board with my PC. It's a Prolific PC2303HA device. The problem is, that Prolific dropped support for this device. Their current drivers ...

I previously had a thread with nasty pagefaults where the main culprit was my HDD was actually failing. I received a new SSD this week and reinstalled Windows 7, since then things have been insanely ...

(Please forgive me if I've posted this in the wrong exchange).
We had an issue with one of our servers this morning, due to a generator test. On examining the services more closely we found that one ...

EDIT: Since we have identified that at least my HDD is failing, I've went ahead and used this as an excuse to finally get an SSD. It will arrive tomorrow morning and I will format back to my current ...

So recently I fell for a tech support scam. I reset my computer to a couple days before and ran a bunch of virus scans and everything looked good. But today I turned on my PC and theres a drive called ...

Every 35 minutes approx. my audio ceases working and I must restart the audio service (net stop audiosrv) in order to get it working again for a while, it's driving me nuts, especially because all the ...

I'm having a hard time adjusting my monitor's gamma to my liking in Windows.
I'm not a photographer/video editor or anything like that, I don't need precise calibration, but the default settings
in ...

A couple of months ago, my graphics card got burnt due to over heating of the laptop. It simply won't boot. I tried a reinstallation, but in the middle of the installation when it started installing ...

I was originally using wifi, and I installed Hamachi to allow for a more direct hosting option for my game servers, but now I no longer needed it, and uninstalled it. However now, I have no Ethernet ...

I have an ASUS A550CA laptop and my HDD broke down some time ago. I got a new HDD and installed Windows from scratch. I also installed all drivers present on the ASUS support page for this model but ...

I have a three month old laptop, an Acer Aspire E 14 touch windows 8.1. I don't remember having any problems with it until yesterday.
Every time I place my pointer somewhere it'll either type spaces ...

I have been experiencing lots of BSODs in the past few weeks.
The stop code is always 0x9F (driver_power_state_failure).
I have saved four memory dumps from the past three days, and used WinDbg from ...

I had bought nVidia GeForce GT530 video card for my friend today, His PC works on Windows 7 SP1 and the motherboard is Asrock G41M-S3 with 2GB RAM, Core 2 Duo CPU. I installed the video card with the ...

I was setting up a new Windows 8.1 install on a Dell laptop our org owns. As we like to put our own software on the machines, we will wipe and reinstall from scratch. After the initial install, as I ...

I would like to understand the whole data flow of 5.1 sound data from a software application to the final output HDMI port.
Let's make a very simple scenario. A simple windows 8.1 program, uses some ...

I recently purchased an Asus X550L computer. It came pre-bundled with an ASUS Windows 8.1 that I immediately wiped, to ensure I get a "clean" install without any superfluous junk that the OEM decided ...

When booting in safe mode the computer will list a bunch of system files it is running, yet the system files are located in differently named Driver folders in System32.
So names of these I saw were:
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I am trying to install windows 7 on my laptop instead of windows8. My pc doesn't recognise my cd driver in order to boot from the win7 ISO file. So, I opened DriverPackSolution in orde to update my ...

After booting my custom PC the screen stays black. It starts with a "beep- tone", then everything runs as usual until the blue welcome-screen appears. After that the screen turns black and only the ...